Sappho - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520272935 ISBN 13: 9780520272934

Verlag: University of California Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

The Greeks consider her their greatest lyric poet, though only fragments of Sappho's work survives. Mary Barnard lovingly translated these poems, and they comprised the most important book she has ever published. Certainly, it has become one of the most important, treasured, and best-selling books the University of California Press has every published.
Sappho gives us flashes of vivid comment and description - forthright attacks on her enemies, dialogues with her friends, and exasperated exchanges with Aphrodite, the goddess who was both enemy and ally. At times funny, sexy, heartbreaking, the poems are highly personal and emotional portrayals of the world in which she lived twenty-five hundred years ago.

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Mary Barnard (1909–2001) was a prominent Amreican poet, translator, and biographer with many books in her repertoire. She studied Greek at Reed College and began to translate at Ezra Pound's instigation in the 1930s. Her Assault on Mount Helicon: A Literary Memoir was published by the University of California Press in 1984. Two years later she received the Western States Book Award for her book-length poem, Time and the White Tigress. She has also published prose fiction and a volume of essays on mythology as well as the original lyrics gathered in Collected Poems, 1979.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0520272935
• ISBN 13: 9780520272934
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 3
• Anzahl der Seiten: 120
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